Kevin: Martin Stabe give a good overview of more media criticism of the handling of the Virginia Tech shootings. Excellent roundup. Journalist and LiveJournaler Adam Tinworth calls media attempts to contact LJers ‘digital doorstopping’.

Kevin: Craig McGinty considers the Virginia Tech coverage online. “One thing I think a journalist has to consider is that if they see messages previously left by other news organisations do they really think their request is going to make any difference?”

Kevin: LSE’s Charlie Beckett looks at gun legislation pieces in the British press hours after the Virginia shootings and asks, among other things: “Is it part of a more general knee-jerk bias against America within the British press?”